Brenton Tarrant

Brenton Tarrant (1991-) was an Australian man who, on 15 March 2019, committed mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Biography
Brenton Tarrant was born in Australia in 1991, and he developed far-right and Islamophobic views. He purchased a cache of weapons and ammunition which he stored in his station wagon, and he scrawled onto his weapons the names of Christian leaders in the wars with Islam during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, including Charles Martel (victor at the Battle of Tours), Konstantin II Asen (who led the Bulgarian fight against the Ottomans in the early 1400s), Pelayo (the Asturian leader at the Battle of Covadonga), Sebastiano Venier (the victorious Venetian doge at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571), and the crusaders Gaston IV of Bearn and Bohemond I of Antioch. At 1:40 PM on 15 March 2019, he began a mass shooting at the al-Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, livestreaming his shooting on Facebook Live. He then initiated a second mass shooting at a mosque in the Linwood suburb of Christchurch. He was later captured, and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the attacks as one of New Zealand's darkest days.